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The ‘Background’ in Bangalore; Architecture and Critical Resistance in a New Modernity
Author(s) -
Chandavarkar Prem
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.566
Subject(s) - modernity , globalization , architecture , resistance (ecology) , sociology , intellectualism , social science , economy , political science , law , economics , art , visual arts , ecology , biology
Abstract As the centre of India's new information and biotechnology industries, Bangalore has been at the forefront of the country's globalisation. As Prem Chandavarkar explains, the city's architectural culture continues at the leading edge to be one of ‘intellectualism’, valuing ‘the background’, a sense of place and contextualism over the more brash facadism of other cities. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.